United States Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Israel On behalf of the supporters of Alleged genocide of Palestinians in Gaza The police force was deployed after the protestors stormed the camp.
Eyewitness video footage, also confirmed by the British news agency Reuters, showed Israeli supporters wielding clubs and batons at makeshift barriers erected to protect the protest camps.
After October 7, the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip killed more than 35,000 Palestinians. Protest wave It has spread across America.
Student protests have also taken on a political tone in the US ahead of this November’s presidential election, with Republicans accusing some university administrators of turning a blind eye to anti-Semitic or anti-Semitic rhetoric and harassment of Jews. are closed.
On Tuesday, University of California administration notified protesters that the camp was illegal and a violation of university policy. University chancellor Jane Brooke said it involved ‘people from outside our campus’ although she did not provide any evidence of the presence of ‘outsiders’.
Footage from Wednesday morning showed pro-Israel protesters, many of them older than the students and masked, hurling objects across the university campus and at the wooden and steel barriers erected to protect the camp. Can be seen trying to break or pull.
Some of these people were also heard shouting slogans in support of the Jews.
“They (pro-Israel supporters) came here and tortured us,” Kaya Shah, a UCLA student researcher, told Reuters.
He added: ‘I couldn’t have imagined that they would ever stoop to this level and take this step. , while we are not doing anything against them.’
Later, protesters from both sides pepper-sprayed each other and a fight broke out.
Another pro-Palestinian student, Sophia, said: ‘They (sprayed) us people, hit us with sticks and sticks, were throwing whatever they could throw at us and none of the law enforcement agencies. Wasn’t here either. We are seen as criminals here.’
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The Los Angeles Police Department said it responded to a request from UCLA to restore order and maintain public safety due to several acts of violence at a protest camp on campus.
Footage aired later showed police erecting an iron barricade in front of the camp at 5 a.m. and the area being quiet.
Los Angeles Councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky wrote in a post on X: ‘Everyone has the right to free speech and protest, but the situation on UCLA’s campus is out of control and no longer safe.’
On the other hand, the police in New York arrested several protesters hiding in Columbia University.
Police officers stormed Hamilton Hall on Tuesday night, where protesters had seized the second floor through a window in the morning. A police spokesman said that within three hours they had removed the protesters and arrested dozens.
Columbia University President Manoosh Shafiq has requested the police to remain on the campus at least till May 17 to maintain order and ensure that protest campuses do not re-establish here.
At the time of the police action, the students standing outside the hall raised slogans like ‘Shame on you, give freedom to Palestine and let the students go’.
Police were seen loading dozens of detained students into a bus with their hands tied behind their backs with zip ties, a scene illuminated by the flashing red and blue lights of police cars.
Sweda Pollat of the Columbia University organization ‘Apartheid Divest’ said they were not in danger and urged the police to back off.
Columbia University President Manoosh Shafiq alleged that the Hamilton Hall occupiers had vandalized university property and were overstepping their bounds. The university had earlier warned the students involved in the protest.
Hours before police entered Columbia University, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and police officials said the Hamilton Hall occupation was instigated by “external agitators” unrelated to Columbia University.
Adams, however, provided no evidence of this. Mehmood Khalil, a leader of the student protest, disputed the claim.
On the other hand, police were also called in to evacuate pro-Palestinian camps overnight and make arrests at Tulane University in New Orleans, the University of Arizona and the City College of New York in Harlem.
According to the New York Times report, dozens of people have been arrested at City College.
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2024-08-01 01:29:07